Disable Comments: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

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Disable Comments is a free WordPress plugin that turns comments off site-wide or for specific post types and clears out the spam that's already piled up. This short course helps you decide whether your site even wants comments, then shows how to switch them off cleanly everywhere at once. You'll finish with a tidier site and no more comment spam to police. Both lessons were recorded on a clean WordPress 7.1 install with Disable Comments 2.7, so every screen matches the current plugin.

What you'll learn

WordPress adds a comment box to every post and page by default, but many business, brochure, and portfolio sites have no conversation to host — only a spam surface to defend. The built-in setting only affects future content, leaving old pages to be fixed one by one, which is where the Disable Comments WordPress plugin saves real time. After this course you'll be able to turn comments off across an entire site in one move, understand the plugin's extra switches, purge the spam already sitting in your database without losing a real comment, and confirm on the live site that the change stuck. It's a ten-minute fix for an annoyance that otherwise never goes away.

Inside the course

• The Decision and Installing the Plugin
• Cleanup, Verification & Living With It

Who this course is for

This is for owners of sites that don't need comments — businesses, portfolios, and brochure sites — and anyone tired of moderating spam. It's completely beginner-friendly and needs no technical knowledge. If you'd rather keep comments but stop the spam, our free Antispam Bee course is the alternative.

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